Novak Djokovic returns to ATP No. 1 along with his twenty third Grand Slam title

PARIS — Novak Djokovic returned to No. 1 within the ATP rankings on Monday, changing Carlos Alcaraz there, after successful the French Open for a males’s-record twenty third Grand Slam title.

Djokovic now will add to the document he already held for probably the most weeks main the tennis rankings – males’s or ladies’s – because the computerized system was arrange a half-century in the past.

“So, of course, when you talk about history, people mostly talk about the Grand Slams won or the amount of time you spent at the No. 1 rankings,” Djokovic mentioned. “I have managed to break the records in both of these statistics, which is amazing.”

Iga Swiatek, the ladies’s champion at Roland Garros, stored her spot atop the WTA rankings, the place she has been for greater than a yr. She may have been overtaken by No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, relying on the leads to Paris.

Djokovic had been No. 3 going into the yr’s second main event, however successful it for the third time after exiting within the quarterfinals a yr in the past supplied the factors enhance he wanted to leap as much as No. 1. He defeated Alcaraz 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 within the semifinals on Friday, then bought previous Casper Ruud 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 within the remaining on Sunday.

It gave Djokovic three championships at Roland Garros, including to his 10 from the Australian Open, seven from Wimbledon and three from the U.S. Open. He had been tied with rival Rafael Nadal with 22 main trophies.

Alcaraz dropped to No. 2, Daniil Medvedev slid one place to No. 3 after a first-round exit in Paris, whereas Ruud remained at No. 4.

Nadal hasn’t performed since January due to a hip harm and so was unable to defend his title at the French Open. The inactivity despatched him out of the Top 100 on Monday, to No. 136.

Swiatek earned her third French Open trophy in 4 years and her fourth Grand Slam title total with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Karolina Muchova on Saturday. Swiatek has been at No. 1 since April 2022, when she moved there after Ash Barty retired.

Sabalenka, who received the Australian Open in January, had an opportunity to overhaul Swiatek however misplaced within the semifinals in Paris to Muchova after holding a match level. Muchova soared all the best way from forty third to a career-high sixteenth within the rankings.

Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, who withdrew earlier than her third-round match at the French Open due to an sickness, is at No. 3, and Caroline Garcia is at No. 4, with Jessica Pegula going from No. 3 to No. 5.